Blutide Black
One hundred and five Blutide products are stocked in black, the widest of the three finish pages here and the one that reaches furthest across the catalogue. Blutide names the finish simply Black, so titles read Spring Black, Satin Black, Silk Black and Moon Black. All of it is supplied in South Africa by Vortex Sanitaryware, sole distributor for the brand. For the whole catalogue rather than one finish, start at Blutide.
What Black Covers
Tapware is the bulk of it: twenty two basin mixers across short, tall and wall type, seventeen kitchen items, nine bath mixers, nine shower mixers and six freestanding bath mixers. Behind those sit fourteen plumbing and waste pieces, from basin and bath clicker wastes to bottle traps, wall spouts and wall outlets, plus five shower heads, five shower arms and two shower channels. Shop by type on basin mixers and kitchen mixers.
Eight ranges reach black. Satin and Silk carry ten items each, Spring and Moon nine, Neo and Accessories 88 eight, Shore seven and Lace five. Ginger, Crimson, Mixed Tide, Rip, Darling and Bore Tide have no black products here. The other thirty eight items carry no range name, which is normal for wastes, traps, spouts, arms and heads meant to work under any range.
Where Black Runs Thin
Accessories are the narrow point. The black offer is essentially the Accessories 88 eight piece set plus four unbranded pieces, against a wider choice in other finishes on Blutide bathroom accessories. There is no standalone smooth shower hose in black either, though the four function rail set is stocked.
Keeping One Finish Across a Room
Tapware, wastes and accessories are bought as separate line items, and that is where consistency breaks. The check is the product title, because Blutide writes the finish word into it. Work outward from the mixer to the visible waste, the wall outlet or spout, then the accessories, and order them together rather than months apart. If black is not the answer, gunmetal and brushed brass are the other two finishes held at depth, and no product appears in more than one of the three.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Blutide black a matt black finish?
Blutide names this finish simply Black, so the titles read Spring Black, Satin Black, Silk Black, Shore Black and Moon Black. Only three of the 533 Blutide products on this store carry Matt Black in the title, and they sit alongside the rest rather than forming a separate finish. Because the naming does not state a sheen, judge it from the product photography or ask us to confirm against a specific product code before you order.
Which Blutide ranges are available in black?
Eight of them. Satin and Silk have ten black items each, Spring and Moon nine, Neo and Accessories 88 eight, Shore seven and Lace five. Ginger, Crimson, Mixed Tide, Rip, Darling and Bore Tide have no black products on this store. A further thirty eight black items carry no range name, which is normal for wastes, traps, spouts, shower arms and shower heads that are meant to sit under any range.
Can I get matching black wastes and traps?
Yes, and black is the strongest of the three finishes for this. Stocked pieces include slotted and unslotted 32mm basin clicker wastes, a 40mm bath clicker waste, round and square bottle traps, a round bath filler and overflow, wall spouts at 200mm and 250mm, round and square wall outlets, a square shower trap and shower channels at 500mm and 750mm. The full list sits on the Blutide plumbing and wastes page.
Does black cover kitchen taps as well as bathroom tapware?
It does. Seventeen of the 105 black items are kitchen pieces: single hole sink mixers in Satin, Silk, Shore, Neo, Moon, Lace and Spring, a Neo pullout sink mixer, spray sink mixers in Satin and Silk, gooseneck mixers, and two wall type sink mixers with a J spout. Kitchen is the single largest block in the wider Blutide catalogue, so black covers it properly rather than as an afterthought.
How do I keep the finish consistent if I buy the pieces separately?
Use the product title. Blutide writes the finish word into it, so anything reading Black belongs in this collection and anything without it is a different finish. Order the mixer, the visible waste or bottle trap, the wall outlet or spout and the accessories together rather than months apart, and keep the visible tapware inside one range so the shapes agree. Black, gunmetal and brushed brass share no products, so changing finish means changing every item.
